the league of reluctant adults

I'm so excited to reveal to the League the AMAZING cover for Tempest Rising.  I can't tell you HOW pleased with it I am.  It's perfect for my book and it's everything I could have wanted. For more information on how this cover came to be, go to: http://www.orbitbooks.net/2009/02/23/cover-launch-tempest-rising/#more-1606 Thanks so much to Sharon Tancredi, an incredible artist who took the time to get to know Jane.  It shows in every detail of this cover.  And thanks to the whole team at Orbit, for everything they do, and especially to Lauren Panepinto, Creative Director, who got me, got the book, and took a delightful risk. 

Okay, no, I don’t want to talk about sex at all.  I want to talk about covers.  But I got your attention, didn’t I? And that’s the whole point of a cover.  See the nice segue-way, there?  I don’t just randomly yell the word sex.  SEX!!!! My cover is, as I write this, being carefully crafted by the AMAZING artist Sharon Tancredi: http://www.sharontancredi.com / I have seen the sketches, and I am over the moon with her, her aesthetic, and her ideas for Tempest.  She is also an insanely nice woman who took the time to read my manuscript AND email me about it.  So I feel I am in very good hands. A lot of people have asked me about this part of the process.  It seems, in many ways, the part everyone is most interested in.  They’ve wanted to know how much input I’ve had, etc.  My experience has been unique, I think, in that the Orbit team just does everything right.  I think I’ve had quite a bit of input on the cover, to a certain extent, but I’ve mostly spent that time shouting, “...